Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation director of communications, responds to Durham City Council’s consideration of a plan to accept the Mexican matricula consular card as official identification. Kokai offered these comments for a Nov. 10, 2010, report on WTVD (ABC11).
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Cities differ on public safety tech
The police department in Winston-Salem uses a commercial product called ShotSpotter, a network of audio sensors and software, to identify possible incidents of gunfire and ensure a faster response to them. Since its implementation in 2021, the system appears to have reduced the number of aggravated assaults and saved at least two lives of gunshot...